Pope John III of Alexandria

Coptic Pope John III (630-689) was Coptic pope from 680 to 689, succeeding Coptic Pope Agathon and preceding Coptic Pope Isaac.

Biography
Yohannes was born in 630 CE in Samanoud, Aegyptus in the Byzantine Empire to a Christian family. He became Coptic Pope in 680 during a time of warfare across the Muslim world, and Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan was governor of Egypt at the time of John's tenure. John rebuilt Saint Mark's Cathedral, which had been greatly ruined during the 641 Arab invasion, and he died in 689 after a nine-year tenure as pope.